Legal Event

from MARTLET 66 - Spring 2020

by OldMillhilliansClubLtd

Tim Stringer

Mill Hill School 6th form pupils

WEDLAKE BELL OFFICES

The OM Legal Networking Event on 12 September 2019 held at Wedlake Bell.

The above event attended by some 25 OM lawyers and others was highly enjoyable and informative. It was good to see so many MHS sixth formers present as well as law and other students. Thank you to the School for this, the logistics of escorting numerous sixth formers to our office cannot be easy.

We were fortunate to welcome as our guest speaker David Greene, Senior Partner and Head of Litigation & Dispute Resolution at Edwin Coe and Vice President of the Law Society of England & Wales. David’s talk “Where’s the justice” highlighted successes and failings in the justice process and its centrality to the maintenance of liberal democracy. Inevitably the Supreme Court hearing, due the following week, about the legality or otherwise of the prorogation of Parliament loomed large. One could not have wished for a more high profile legal point ! David was an excellent speaker and we are grateful to OM Chair Peter Wakeham for inviting David.

David’s talk reminded me of my time at Bristol University, just a few years back, studying cases from the 16th and 17th century on constitutional law and thinking such cases surely had no relevance in the modern world – how wrong can one be ! The moral must be, it is always worth listening to teachers.

In conclusion, we would encourage more of our middle ranking (in age) and senior OM lawyers to attend next year – we have many of them and would very much welcome them.

John Barron Matthew Berrick SamuelChadwick Caitlin Donovan Paul Eichmuller Abhijit Gupta John Hellinikakis Claire Jostins Emilia Licurgo Cristina Licurgo Dick Lidwell Richard Llewellyn Andrew Nayager David Roe Laura Turner Peter Wakeham Clive Weber Liv Arshad Emma Jelen Katie Collins Liberty Dickin Maya Shah Evelyn Taylor Hollie Kimber Richard Warden David Greene Amelia Barzilay David Greene